electricsheepafrica/africa-kenya-public-debt

Kenya Public Debt

Publisher: Central Bank of Kenya · Source: OpenAfrica · License: cc-by · Updated: 2023-06-07

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Abstract

Data showing both domestic and external debt for each month over 22 years; 1999 to 2021

Each row in this dataset represents time-series observations. Data was last updated on OpenAfrica on 2023-06-07. Geographic scope: Africa (multiple countries).

Curated into ML-ready Parquet format by Electric Sheep Africa.

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Dataset Characteristics

Domain	Humanitarian and development data
Unit of observation	Time-series observations
Rows (total)	262
Columns	7 (1 numeric, 6 categorical, 0 datetime)
Train split	209 rows
Test split	52 rows
Geographic scope	Africa (multiple countries)
Publisher	Central Bank of Kenya
OpenAfrica last updated	2023-06-07

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Variables

Geographic — year (range 1999.0–2021.0), external_debt (4,174,371.53, 425,992.78, 425,976.18).

Temporal — month (December, September, November).

Outcome / Measurement — total (8,206,739.71, 863,863.72, 860,597.57).

Identifier / Metadata — esa_source (HDX), esa_processed (2026-04-27).

Other — domestic_debt (4,032,368.18, 437,870.94, 434,621.39).

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Quick Start

from datasets import load_dataset

ds    = load_dataset("electricsheepafrica/africa-kenya-public-debt")
train = ds["train"].to_pandas()
test  = ds["test"].to_pandas()

print(train.shape)
train.head()

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Schema

Column	Type	Null %	Range / Sample Values
year	int64	0.0%	1999.0 – 2021.0 (mean 2010.5725)
month	object	0.0%	December, September, November
domestic_debt	object	0.0%	4,032,368.18, 437,870.94, 434,621.39
external_debt	object	0.0%	4,174,371.53, 425,992.78, 425,976.18
total	object	0.0%	8,206,739.71, 863,863.72, 860,597.57
esa_source	object	0.0%	HDX
esa_processed	object	0.0%	2026-04-27

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Numeric Summary

Column	Min	Max	Mean	Median
year	1999.0	2021.0	2010.5725	2011.0

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Curation

Raw data was downloaded from OpenAfrica via the CKAN API and converted to Parquet. Column names were lowercased and standardised to snake_case. Common missing-value markers (N/A, null, none, -, unknown, no data, #N/A) were unified to NaN. The dataset was split 80/20 into train and test partitions using a fixed random seed (42) and saved as Snappy-compressed Parquet.

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Limitations

• Data originates from Central Bank of Kenya and has not been independently validated by ESA.
• Automated cleaning cannot correct for misreported values, definitional inconsistencies, or sampling bias in the original collection.
• Refer to the original HDX dataset page for the publisher's own methodology notes and caveats.

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Citation

@dataset{openafrica_africa_kenya_public_debt,
  title     = {Kenya Public Debt},
  author    = {Central Bank of Kenya},
  year      = {2023},
  url       = {https://open.africa/dataset/kenya-public-debt},
  note      = {Repackaged for machine learning by Electric Sheep Africa (https://huggingface.co/electricsheepafrica)}
}

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